Treating Humans Worse Than Animals: Prison System Voices Decry Solitary … A corrections officer was arrested last week and charged with violating the civil rights of Jason Echevarria, a mentally ill Rikers prisoner who died after eating a packet of detergent given to him when his cell was flooded with sewage. It was the …Read more on Truth-Out

Getting kids to eat: CHOC team shares techniques Between 25 percent and 45 percent of normally developing children have some kind of feeding disorder, and that proportion jumps to 80 percent if a child has had a developmental disorder, according to the CHOC's Multidisciplinary Feeding Program. The …Read more on OCRegister

Marijuana rally pushes for legalization, reform Rosenzweig said his father, Louis Rosenzweig, suffers from reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a chronic pain disorder that is not alleviated through a nerve block, opiate-based drugs or other inpatient treatments. Rosenzweig would like his father to be able …Read more on Evening Sun (subscription)

Anorexic woman saved by strangers at YMCA Three years ago, she was a 23-year-old woman who had moved to a new place where no one knew that she had battled her eating disorder since the age of 10 or that she had been hospitalized more than a dozen times. Lax didn't realize how sick she was and …Read more on Knoxville News Sentinel

Eating Disorder Vlog – Advice for Inpatient Treatment — Being admitted as inpatient to any unit can be a daunting experience, but it needn’t be too scary if you make good use of the support of staff, patients, fri…